Henry Jones

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Henry Burk Jones (born August 1, 1912 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , † May 17, 1999 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American actor who played mostly unsympathetic supporting characters and was awarded the Tony Award over the course of his long career as a character actor .

Career

College graduate Henry Jones made his acting debut on Broadway in 1938 as Reynaldo in Hamlet . After completing his military service in World War II, he prevailed as an actor with the role of the murdered craftsman in The Bad Seed . In 1958, Jones was honored with the Tony Award for Best Actor for the role. Jones had previously played the role in the film version from 1955 , with which he established himself in the film business - since the early 1940s he had only had a few film and television appearances, but was not able to assert himself there permanently. A long and varied career in film, television and theater followed. In 1961 he left the stage and concentrated only on film work.

Mostly, Jones embodied unsympathetic and tough, occasionally also terrifying characters in the second row. One of the best-known examples of this is the role of the relentless coroner in the Hitchcock thriller Vertigo - From the Realm of the Dead , which in a long monologue blames James Stewart for the death of his beloved. He only took on bigger tasks in smaller films. Jones has worked in around 150 films and has worked with directors such as Alfred Hitchcock , Mervyn LeRoy , Claude Chabrol , Burt Kennedy , George Roy Hill , Sidney Lumet and Stephen Frears . Jones had been on television since the late 1940s in the following series, among others: Solo for ONCEL , Bonanza , Smoking Colts , Vegas , Quincy , Love Boat , Falcon Crest , MacGyver , Magnum and Mord ist her hobby . It wasn't until 1995 that he had his last television role.

Henry Jones died of a fall at the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles at the age of 86 . Jones was married twice, his first wife Yvonne Bergere died in the marriage year 1942. In 1946 he married Judy Briggs, but this marriage was divorced in 1961. His daughter Jocelyn Jones is also an actress.

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SURNAME Jones, Henry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jones, Henry Burk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , United States
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 1999
Place of death Los Angeles , California , United States